Justice and Public Safety
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During a recent briefing on Capitol Hill, leaders and members of national associations considered artificial intelligence use cases and topics, along with a new playbook guiding the technology’s ethical, scalable adoption. -
Proposed City Council legislation that would compel police to restore limited news media access to radio communications advanced to a second reading. Police leadership warned doing so could violate state and federal laws and policies.
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City commissioners planned to vote this week on a vendor contract but have continued their conversation about implementing the cameras, to monitor vehicle traffic and deter crime. Some opposition emerged during public comment.
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The legislation that took aim at drivers “under the influence of an electronic device” — talking on a cellphone or texting — has lost momentum and is likely to fizzle out completely, according the lawmaker behind it.
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Five winners will be selected during the Smart Cities Week conference April 15-17 in San Diego. Those cities will become part of the year-long Readiness Program to scale up smart city visions into reality.
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The cameras will automatically activate if the rear door of an officer’s cruiser is opened, if the vehicle is involved in a high-speed pursuit or if a nearby officer’s body camera is activated.
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Children can't handle watching live-streamed massacres – and adults shouldn't have to.
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A new restraining tool is being marketed to law enforcement in the U.S. and abroad as non-lethal and potentially painless. The company is now led by former TASER International co-founder Thomas Smith.
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Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center show that U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to use facial recognition at 20 major international airports on 16,300 flights per week by 2021.
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The Lafayette Parish Communication District hopes to have the system operating within the next year, but emergency dispatchers will train on a beta version until the new program is ready to go live.
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People – individually and in groups – were not as good at facial recognition as an algorithm. But five people plus the algorithm, working together, were even better.
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Those involved with the development and use of online dispute resolution platforms see opportunities for the systems that extend well past divorces and small claims court.
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South Carolina-based Avtec is Motorola Solutions' eighth acquisition since February 2016, and brings in a company whose customers include public safety agencies, utilities, railroads, airlines and more.
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Up to 88 percent of trafficking victims report coming into contact with someone that could have helped them, while as few as 2 percent are located and connected with the proper care. New technology hopes to change that.
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Law enforcement in the communities of Middletown and West Chester, Ohio, are asking residents to register their security cameras so officers can quickly request footage in the event of a crime.
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So-called interlock devices are generally only required by state courts after someone has been arrested for drunk driving, but members of Congress are pushing legislation that would mandate the devices to keep drunk drivers off the road.
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Plus, Stanford University policy lab releases data on millions of U.S. traffic stops; three takeaways from Open Data Day 2019; and San Antonio passes a new cross-agency data-sharing agreement.
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The civil rights group says that dozens of law enforcement agencies across the country have been sharing plate data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to target undocumented immigrants.
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Erie County Prison has asked the county for a $95,000 full-body scanner to locate drugs and weapons being smuggled into the facility. The machine can locate items not found in physical strip searches, prison officials say.
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The bill's sponsor wanted to ramp up enforcement of a hard-to-enforce piece of urban traffic: cars blocking lanes meant only for public transit. But civil rights advocates are skeptical of putting more cameras in cities.
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The shutdown, which was the result of a ransomware attack, has led to public defenders in Massachusetts going without paychecks as workers scramble to restore backups. The agency did not pay the ransom.
